David Hopkins

Mar 18, 2025 | lawliberty.org | Matt Grossmann |David Hopkins |George Hawley |Asheesh Agarwal

The modern conservative movement’s antipathy toward academia was present at the moment of its birth. William F. Buckley became a national figure thanks to his 1951 book, God and Man at Yale, which attacked his alma mater for abandoning its Christian heritage and embracing left-wing economics. In the late 1980s, Allan Bloom became an important public intellectual because of The Closing of the American Mind, which argued that universities had abandoned the quest for truth.